Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes
My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
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Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.
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As parents, we all want the best for our children.
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The blessings of the priesthood transcend our ability to comprehend.
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Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
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My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.
